The Moon Goddess and the Son is a science fiction novel by American writer Donald Kingsbury, published by Baen in 1986. The novel was an expanded version of a novella published in the December 1979 issue of Analog magazine, which was a nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 1980.
Along with the novella, Kingsbury and Roger Arnold published a nonfiction article describing the technologies used in the story for achieving cheap access to Low Earth orbit and beyond.[1][2] Their LEOport station allows suborbital IMP vehicles to pop up and align themselves with a 100km long deceleration track. The station vents gas into the airscoop of an 'impact reaction engine', which uses inverted aerobraking to match speed with the station.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Roger Arnold and Donald Kingsbury, "The Spaceport, Part I," Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. 99, No. 11, November 1979, pp. 48-67.
- ^ Roger Arnold and Donald Kingsbury, "The Spaceport, Part II," Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. 99, No. 12, December 1979, pp. 60-77.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20110724211728/http://www.walthelm.net/inverted-aerobraking/ImpactReactionEngine.html
External links
- The Moon Goddess and the Son title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- "The Moon Goddess and the Son" title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
